An Invasive Plant Management Plan developed for Big Sur Land Trust, a non-profit conservation organization located on California's Central Coast, to guide its vegetation management activities and serve as a decision-support tool. The effort included the creation of a digital field data collection tool through Survey123 Connect, survey and data...
Understanding the impact of humans on the environment has long been a topic of scholarly interest and debate. As environmental problems mount, accounts of historic ecological conditions and the factors of change become increasingly useful. This study considers competing schools of interpretation about human impacts on ecological landscapes and develops...
Nearly 3000 juvenile Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and coho (O. kisutch) salmon captured in nearshore waters off the coasts of Washington and Oregon from 1999-2004 were tested for infection by Renibacterium salmoninarum, Nanophyetus salmincola, and skin metacercariae. First, three quantitative PCR primer/probe sets were compared for detection of R. salmoninarum; amplification...
The purpose of this pilot study was to determine whether students
using a series of planned exercises designed to improve typewriter
composition skills would be better able to compose at the typewriter
than students in a control group. The study was also concerned with
the effect that the use of...
Foodservice systems management (FSM) has had impact on the role of dietitians,
not only in the United States (US), but also in Korea. The purpose of the study
was: (1) to delineate and identify the acceptable FSM competencies for Korean
dietitians (KDs), (2) to identify factors which influenced the Korean...